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Show on© week-end but nevsf^a oo^pl^xt frou thorn* Br, Ch'i m$ %« Ma' have worked hard and with ft* p i s t t l a g s stout ~t.o %oy mt in apiary which glva* th«m 1*** than half ; the amount they 'could £e$ 5£*om any $*^^narti£ Hasjitai, InjjeacL vane of th* Doctors Hi offered a t&i^tttolTi^'ltohftb i Wfk-U^wW*R»qHb£s2hu^ai*at (he is getting #88.00 on the reduced schedule}, but he had "decided vjjv* rs&afk with us for he realise* mar ated and how Eiffiilult i t is to g«t & good st»e*a t o come to the country. {We did return hi* salary to i t i former |I10#00, for we had no face te ask hi® to remain ©therwis*.) I am proud of the s p i r i t that our staff has shown. %w are just now rejeicing in an excellent crop of winter wheat « almost Rten parts® good - and the cotton crops premie© ao far to be equally good, so our hearts are such lighter than' they war® during, the winter. The suffering that we have seen and have been unable t* relieve has been heartrending. Oust hers may 1 introduce to you some of ©ur Staff! Br, Oh*i (pronounced *h**) i s an older man, a graduate of (h.eloQ University Medical S*h*ol at fsiaanfu, the capital ©f Shantung, He has had experience ae superintendent in two ether hospitals, so he is quite capable of carrying on when I am away at Techow, where I sa superintendent also ©f th* Willism-Portar Hospital*, established by Dr.-and ,:r8. Franeiso f, fucker, whs you probably know, Dr, CSifi has charge of the medical side of the work. He also doe* th* country itinerating work, with Mr*, Zila, one ©f our mors* helper®. Our surggoa Is Dr. Ma, a young man four years out of collage, the K*ukd*n Medical School, of which you doubtless knew* He i s doing w&y good work, has successfully performed operations we have never attempted hero before, and is making a name for hiaielf in the Oosaunity, Th© son of our County Magistrate, needing an *p-atisn, refused to hav* i t performed in fsingtao, where he w*« attending school and where there are a mmhrni of large well-known hospitals, "but insisted, on returning to Lintslng to be operated upon by Hr. Ma* During th© l a s t f l i t eon ymts we have been slowly building up a maternity department, to in a small aeasure offset the t e r r i b l e infant mortality of J5^» It has grown from three cases the f i r s t year to one hundred and twelve in %9$k» ®ur record year. We now have a trained midwife (a graduate imm®) who handles a l l the normal cases. This year we are trying to interest these mother-Jiin a well-baby clinic and have found to our hand the Government Bureau of Iduoation** Tear Ran for Qhildrsa, One of their projects is a Better iaby fenteot* and we have been happy to cooperate with our local Board of Education in examining the children for the Contest. From t h i s beginning we are hoping to continue the well-baby c l i n ic The Better Baby Contest, something mfev heard of before in Lintslag, drew a thousand or more pothers and babies to the i n i t i a l meeting, held ia our Ghuroh, the largest auditorium in townj where, as yen oaa imagine, i t was necessary t© give the speeches t h r o ng a megaphone and even then i t was difficult to hear above the voices of so many babies? ifter the meeting explaining th® ptt9*#a*off the contest, sad the ala pf the Government ia emphasising the welfare of children t h i s year, tickets w@r© given out to the four hundred or so registered, and these were directed to the Hosp-fetal for physical examinations. We w@r@ surprised and d e l i s t e d to find that one of the tw@ who took .first prize as the most healthy youngsters, was a four-yea*-©Id laddis who was bora In our hospital to a women then recently widowed. Th© mother took the baby home when he was ton days old, and w© did not see him again until ha was sloven month* old and his mother brought him back to the Annual B&by Party held in January for a l l the babies bora in th© Hospital the previous year, We were dismayed to find him only skin and bones, a poor k i t t l e bit of wretched* starving humanity, with hardly a spark of l i f e ia him. His big, sunken, soulful &ym haunted us, te persuaded his mother to leave his ia the Hospital and we kept hia for six months, one of the foreign nurses - herself a mother of three - paying the b i l l , until with sufficient and proper food he was a different looking child, - so bright, plump and happy that a wealthy family wanted to adopt hia, But h i s mother would not give him up. And now she may well be proud of hia, a sturdy lad, the picture of health, See him in the phot© (Over) |